Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965
by
J. Mills Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
"The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible" writes the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the Caribbean, the analogous idea of a land made into solitary islands by an imprisoned and inherited corruption is historian J. Mills Thornton III’s...